Notices by Gabriel (gabriel@fedi.libresolutions.network)

@silverpill @wjmaggos
It's a problem when large instances & blocklists effectively decide who's on the network. You can have open communication without a monoculture... But you can't have open communication with heavy-handed blocks.

I've accepted that there never will be a single fedi, but I agree it's certainly not a deal-breaker when it comes to the utility of Fedi as a whole.

@silverpill @wjmaggos
In theory I wholeheartedly agree. But in practice the blocklists fracture the network.
But more small instances can make a big difference in the long run.
I just worry that the incentives to censor will always be a non-trivial restriction on the idea of a single global federated network.
Though to be fair, email has its own problems. A lot of self-hosters point out gmail is its own beast.

@silverpill @wjmaggos
Sorry I mean "big tent" as in there are people from many different ideologies like email!

@wjmaggos
I really love the idea of "big fedi" for the same reason I love the web for what it is. The social layer itself seems to be a point of contention because people largely don't see websites existing on the clearnet (or darknets) as in association with each other by default.

More and more I begin to wonder if "Big Fedi" is possible as a project at all, due to the fact that it requires some form of social contract that can't reasonably be enforced.

An uncharitable take would be that "Big Fedi" can't work because it's the tragedy of the commons applied to social currency. (which is what drives HOA Fedi behavior)

But my optimistic nature leads me to believe that a "Big tent Fedi" can and will exist if progress is made against the "us vs them" fights in society. So I would say if we want cooperation and co-existence in cyberspace, we need it IRL as well.

Bros I'm locking in!

It's just that kind of day.

Something tells me the price for failing that test is quite high.

Being in the world of 'is' requires the flexibility to constantly adapt.
Staying in the world of 'aught' requires you to have the patience to bear never seeing radical results.

@freeschool I apologize for the tone. It's hard to express without touching on painful feelings about things.
I will try to get back to you on the rest but I know your heart is in the right place.
My Jitsi has been broken since they required configuration for auth. But I've been using the FSF instance since I'm an Associate member.

@freeschool
I know what you're getting at here, but it is a bit ironic you're focusing on capitalism. The linked paper discusses how state-funded healthcare & government spending create incentives for mass slaughter of (vulnerable members of) the public.
Maybe, it's not actually about the systems themselves but the people who are allowed to run them without any accountability.
Caring for others is foundational, but so is responsibility.
Canadians love to show how virtuous they are while casually ignoring how much bleaker everything gets, and what that means about what should be done.

Woke devs are right about tech and that's why the Lunduke crew will eventually be forced to turn against FOSS itself.
The center-right is still too comfortable with Big Tech and those that aren't get fleeced by conmen like Braxman and spooks like Erik Prince.
But it doesn't matter. Anyone to the left of JD Vance us going to be considered a radical commie in a few years.

New low! Below 330

I'll admit it sucks to lose so much weight and still be very fat...
😕

It's really funny to me that all the leaders who are now demanding the public make sacrifices to 'not lose to China' were perfectly happy with China winning if it meant the public got poorer and sicker.
What changed?

@sun would be interesting to see a chart of "bullshit jobs" broken down by income bracket. I think there would be a few surprises.

Free your ports! #NNN

LibreOffice is hiring

A fun Friday 💪

Diet soda is bad for you not really because of its health consequences but more because you're buying a high-margin product from a cartoonishly evil corporation.

Don't feed the ransomware gangs.

RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/users/thenewoil/statuses/115454273400360273